The Horse Pull

After a pleasant early dinner with Thos., I took my mother to the horse pull. 

The winner, pulling 9,500 pounds for over eight feet, was a local team. 

It’s an interesting sport. The ‘full pull’ is 27.5 feet for no reason anyone seems to know. They pull in stages that increase by a thousand pounds to eight thousand, then by five hundred each thereafter. Beautiful draft horses. 
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4 comments:

  1. Tom5:21 PM

    I'd love to see that. Those old draft horses are amazing animals.

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  2. douglas7:35 PM

    Had to see it in action- Wow. Hardest part was getting them hooked up! Chomping at the bit to go to work!

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  3. Tom9:51 AM

    Thanks for the video, douglas. Impressive animals.

    There's a show from the BBC called 'Victorian Farm' or something like that. A historian and two experimental archeologists live on a preserved Victorian-era farm and live like Victorian farmers for a year. The number of things they use a draft horse for is impressive. Those horses were pretty much every kind of engine for the farmer, whether tractor, truck, the engine for a grain grinder, whatever.

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  4. Tom9:53 AM

    Here's a good video. Two draft horses help pull a semi up an icy hill.

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